IceWEB has rolled out the new Iplicity Cloud Storage Appliance (CSA) product line that can be deployed either as SAN or NAS devices which deliver scalable capabilities.
According to IceWEB, the new Iplicity appliances provides unified storage allowing both applications and users to be granted access to their data by a range of protocols available (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC, AOE, WEBDAV and RSYNC). It also offers improved data protection and replication capabilities which allow organisations to drive content to different locations for different uses as dictated by their own needs.
IceWEB said that the new pre-configured appliances can be configured on the client network. Management and monitoring of the appliances is also intuitive with the dashboard interfaces displaying CPU utilisation, network I/O and disk I/O, and the capability to ‘drill down’. In addition, the automated reporting and ’email-home’ capabilities will alert network staff to any pending, system self healed, or pending issues.
The company said that the 19-inch rack mountable Iplicity CSA’s are available in three pre-configured models: The CSA-2000, a base level appliance with 8TB of storage and the Iplicity Management Software, the CSA-4000 with 16TB expandable to 192TB, and the CSA-8000 with 24TB expandable to 192TB.
Gary Dunham, SVP Of product development and engineering at IceWEB, said: “Iplicity CSA customers can also opt to make their content and storage resources available not only to their own users but also to authenticated partners via the internet – while still maintaining private back-links to the corporate IT infrastructure thus ensuring both data security and consistent quality of service.”
